Neopets, the virtual pet site most might remember from its heyday in the early 2000s, may getting a game on Nintendo Switch.
According to The Washington Post, the company behind Neopets is “considering bringing Neopets to Nintendo Switch, to modernize the product and expand its audience.”
However, article author Shannon Liao adds that the team declined to share further details about any Switch plans they may have.
The Neopets team is thinking of bringing the game to the Nintendo Switch but declined to share further details.
— Shannon Liao (@Shannon_Liao) April 8, 2021
The news was given a brief mention deep within an article about the death of Adobe Flash, which greatly impacted Neopets at the end of 2020.
The site, which has seen a decline in traffic since the early 2000s but is still pulling 1.5 million monthly active users, has seen a “challenging” transition away from Flash.
Neopets is a site in which registered users can adopt and care for virtual pets while also playing games and exploring the various lands of “Neopia” — all of which was built in Flash.
After support for Flash was officially killed off at the very end of last year, Neopets has been gradually working through converting its Flash content to HTML5.
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Written by Daniel Dell-Cornejo
Daniel is an editor at Nintendo Wire. Always with his head in the clouds, he is never apart from his creative thoughts – a blessing for an aspiring fiction writer. As a journalist and lifelong gamer, he aims to provide readers with the very best in Nintendo coverage.
